Playing with anomaliess: Technical guide

Playing with Anomalies A Technical Guide to Imaginary Urban Artifacts Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Colombia University Advanced Architecture Studio & Urban Planning Seminar Fall 2017 Taught by: Giancarlo Mazzanti Carlos Medellin Marcela Tovar Restrepo w. Ayesha Ghosh

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1. Expo-sitio xpositiono fa Site Through Narration

2. ยก Paseando Ollas !

3. Los Comelones

4. River Cloud

5. La Ruta de la Diversidad

Cook,C reate, Connect

New Bogotรก Recycling Narratives

BuildingN ew Imaginariesw itht he Community

Planning forI nternal Displacement in Lisboa

Expo-sitio

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Expo-sitio Exposition of a Site Through Narration Minjae Kim, Randy Armas, Camille Esquivel and Melinda Martinus

Armas, Esquivel, Kim, Martinus

Our proposal is named Expositio, which is derived from the latin word narration. In addition it becomes a contemporary compound of ‘expo’ and ‘sitio’. The former refers to ‘exposition’, both the explanation of an idea and a large public exhibition exposing goods and more ideas. The latter becomes ‘site’ when translated from the spanish word ‘sitio’, which relates our spatial idea to a context, a city, an anthropological method to understand both the geospecific location and its contents. In this way, we believe that narration and storytelling are powerful design and educational tools to imagine and to curate the future of an individual or a community of individuals. Our proposal seeks to provide the people of Lisboa with spaces in the form of a film workshop and a community theater, so that between those two platforms we would trigger the community to document its identity,

empower its members, increase their community visibility and establish a collective vision for their future. Our proposal physicalizes in the form of an inhabitable and tectonic bridge. It links both sides of the Bogota river; Bogota City (at the Lisboa location) and the province of Cundinamarca.

As one keeps going up the bridge the program becomes more film and theater oriented until one reaches the top level which another form of public space high enough to reflect and look out to Lisboa and one’s innermost aspirations. The maximun output of the project is the creation of a film festival. The film festival gets expressed by the deployment of a screen – on the north side of the bridge – of big enough magnitude as to be seen from a considerable distance.

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â–˛ Long Section

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The program is aligned with our beliefs and visions in how we combine artistic production and distribution. Inside it we have the organs of theater and filmmaking; a film set, movable parts that increase the size of performance spaces

or convert study areas into performance stages. The majority of the bridge’s interior is a collection of a variety of spaces that morph, which allows for the appropriation of the artifact.

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â–˛ Short Section A

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â–² Short Section B

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â–˛ Ground Plan

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â–² First Level Plan

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â–˛ Second Level Plan

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â–² Third Level Plan

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â–˛ Scaffolding Module

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â–² Floor Plank Detail

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â–˛ Lookout Level Deployed

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â–² Lookout Level Retracted

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â–˛ Retractable Floor Detail (Gears)

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â–² Retractable Floor Detail

Paseando Ollas

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ยก Paseando Ollas !

Cook, Create, Connect Coco Shi, Patrick LI

Shi, Li

ยก Paseando Ollas ! looks for how excluded people and spaces can be identified by local residents through cultural practices such as food, helping the group to resettle in the community, regain the ability to utilize and contribute to every dimension of economic, social, cultural activities in the society. Food is about sharing, community and hospitality, an international language that is not spoken, but rather tasted and felt.

The project is designing an kitchen hub along the riverside edge, proposing a framework hosting mobile kitchens with

different identities. Each mobile kitchen responds to a specific community in the neighborhood. During the weekdays, it travels to the correspondent area, interacting with the respective group through culinary arts. On the weekends, the mobile kitchens bring different local communities to the hub along the river side, inviting communal events with light and music to celebrate as a whole. In addition, the river, which is now very contaminated and inactivated, has the potential to provide water transportation that delivery supply early in the mornings.

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â–˛ 00 OLLA | Raw Waterbikes traveling to markets in city Bogota for raw food supply.

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â–² 01 OLLA | It Pet store carrying heath-conscious food plus & pet care & training service.

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â–˛ 02 OLLA | Import Mobile vendors carrying food introduced by Chocoano and Venezuelan immigrants.

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â–² 03 OLLA | Local Traditional food market offering cuisines by reemployed women.

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â–˛ 04 OLLA | Apprentice Culinary training studios offering cooking classes & hands-on trainings

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â–˛ 05 OLLA | Pint Indoor and roof bars stocking authentic Afro-Colombian stouts and lagers.

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â–˛ Vertical conveyor transporting OLLA RAW for raw food supply

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â–² Wheels carrying OLLA IT up to the dyke

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â–˛ Spiral ramp bring OLLA IMPORT to the event level

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â–² Unfolding mechanism hosting OLLA LOCAL

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â–² Cable system lifting OLLA APPRENTICE

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â–² Belt type escalator moving OLLA PINT between ground and event levels

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â–˛ Site Plan

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â–² Plan cut through the indoor facility spaces

Los Comelones

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Los Comelones New Bogotá Recycling Narratives Arianna Deane + Andrea Chiney + Erick Pietraszkiewicz

Chiney, Deane, Pietraszkiewicz

“Los Comelones” seeks to improve upon existing economic and spatial systems of the local grassroots recycling industry in Suba, Bogota. Understanding the impact of the recycling process on the pollution of public space and the river, the project builds upon the assets of social networks and skills of the recyclers, and tradition of auto-construccion, to transform the industry.

Los comelones, devices which improve efficiency of collection and transportation of recyclables, are introduced through a folklore to raise awareness about the issue. As opposed to draconian policy, the project introduces a cultural movement to change the social

dynamics between the stigmatized recyclers and the rest of the city, while reframing the public understanding of recycling. The process becomes an event at multiple scales throughout the city, from collection to parades, and material fairs.

In tandem with los comelones, a proposed series of workshops along the Rio Bogota creates an education platform and vehicle through which the recyclers can increase the value of their skills. By processing, and transforming collected recyclables into more valuable building materials, the workshops provide an alternative to an unstable economic situation.

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Circulation

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Workshop Circulation

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Structural Frame Comelón Track

Storage + processing

▲ The pilot workshop dedicated to the transformation of plastics, is situated adjacent to the proposed linear park along the Bogota River, combining public and working spaces. The open frame layout allows for ease of accessibility and visibility, with a bridge like structure supporting paths and soft nets that extends the linear park into the workshop and connects the workshop back to the riverfront. The ground level is designed as a constructed landscape that facilitates a variety of public uses, including the “Comelon Celebration” at the end of bimonthly parades, preparations for “Carnaval” and a day to day neighborhood play space.

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Viewing platform

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12” diameter polyethylene suction tube

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Structrual ‘x’ bracing

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Clerestory windows

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Conveyor entry portal

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18” diameter steel sorting tubes

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Rubberized track

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16 gague inset paenel

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Controller power and break

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Rotating track with rubber wheel chocks

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Figure 06 Name: Julia Age: 33 Occupation: Recycler Julia joined the workshop and works the morning shift from 6am to 3pm, and now is able to look after her kids in the evening. They come play under the workshop after school.

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Name: Julia Age: 33 Occupation: Recycler

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Figure 04 Marco Estructural del Comelón Comelon Structural Frame Metal Ring, gasket attachment to membrane pouch

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Recyclador y Zorra, vehiculo de colección Recycler and Zorra, current collection vehicle (2017)

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14” Circular Metal Tube

1.5” Square HSS 48 volt battery engine

1.5” Steering Handlebars

Movimiento de expansion de la membrana

Pin-lock expansion system

Membrane expansion from empty to full

16” Skinny Tire

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Figure 07 Names: Mateo, Diana Age: 10, 7 Mateo and Diana are now able to go to school full time because they don’t need to help their parents with sorting recyclables. They like to play with blocks at the workshop to help imagine new uses for the plastic.

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Los Comelones

Material testing is an essential part of the workshop, as it allows for creative development and builds a sense of agency around the making of materials.

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18” diameter entry to hopper

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Silo lined with acoustic dampening panels

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8 gague steel shredder blades

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16 gague tack welded hopper

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Motor box

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Ramp down to vertical conveyor

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Drive motor

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Figure 09 El triturador Shredder

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Figure 11 Transportador Vertical Vertical Conveyor

Figure 10 Maquina desgarradora de plรกsticos Plastic shredder

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Extraction skimmers

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Figure 14 Structural pieces provide stability and vibration isolation for machines but added members double as a play structure

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Vertical conveyor to ovens

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Storage Tubes with transparent sections for capacilty and color viewing

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Names: Jose Age: 17 Jose joined the workshop and is now learning valuable vocational training, exploring material innovations with recycled plastic.

52% of the recyclers within the old system are between the ages of 6 and 20 years old.

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Ventilation skylight

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Estructura para juegos

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Structure as Jungle Gym

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Figure 15 El Almacenador Plastic Palette Storage

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Figure 16 Name: Jose Age: 17 Occupation: Recycler

Figure 17 Salon de Hornos Oven Room

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High heat resistant insulated walls

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Compression lid

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10 gague steel base grid mold

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Clerestory into facilities space

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Figure 20 Stage platform and plaza with workshop storage underneath

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Figure 19 Almacen y cambiadores Storage and facilities

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Figure 20 Escenario y almacen de herramientas Stage and tool storage

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â–˛Section - Work and Play

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Saadia Mia Name of Project

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River Cloud Building New Imaginaries with the Community Saadia Lone, Tatiana Kopelman Martin, Wesley Rhodes, Mengying Tang

Lone, Martin, Rhodes, Tang

The concept of the project is to design a mechanism which takes advantage of the water source(river) , to generate new relationships with the River. The River has been ignored by its neighbours and the city itself, the project aims to interact with this ignorance a generate a positive change The design process includes the collection of water into a filtration cloud which then dispenses water to create micro experiences aboard the bridge. With the help of the existing recyclers new and changing water projects can be assembled aboard the bridge for people to interact with as the cross from point A to B. The experiences are small mechanisms to associate positive affects through the use of the filtered water. Combined with the programmatic flexibility of the bridge, it can be converted into a classroom to educate the people and children about keeping the river clean and how that in turn produces a better environment for them .

The bridge has a mechanism of curtains on rails.These curtains allow for the transformation of the space into a more compact social space for gardening classes or educa-

tive classes.

The water from the filtration cloud seminates the landscape on the edges of the dyke as it manouvers along the river.

This allows the people of Lisboa and those who come to the river to experience the physical changes in the landscape by reusing and cleaning the water from the “dirty� river .

The second aspect of the project is the semination of cultivable landscapes around the river . To give the people of Lisboa control over their food resources and food independence. Also to cultivate a more communal interaction between the diverse peoples of the community.

The water tanks along the river bank collect rain water which is then dispersed through the community gardens. It extends into the personal cultivating gardens aswell.In the mcro gardens, the community members can learn to grow new vegetables, fruits and flowers which are not possible in the lack of a controlled environment. These grown products can also be of commercial value.

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filter layers

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storage of clean water

â–˛ It also highlights the value of the river as a resource for the community as well as potentially extended schemes which can be replicated along the river . It becomes also a proponent in generating the economical viability for its surroundings.

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inflatable floating support ground rail based support

hydrolic balance

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lift balance

â–˛ Support mechanism ; The moving machine which seminates the land

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Floor Plan with curtain rails

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community green house

pulley elevator

community garden/park

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rain water collection

La Ruta de la Diversidad

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La Ruta de la Diversidad Planning for Internal Displacement in Lisboa Yanling Deng, Andri Putri, Sebastian Ugas

Deng, Putri, Ugas

This project aims to draw the attention of Bogotans, in general, and Lisboans, in particular, to two difficult and unattended issues in Lisboa: the adaptation difficulties of Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) and the importance of the recovery of Bogota River. Six light structures built along the riverside will trace a route -La Ruta de La Diversidadwhich will have a double function related to both problems.

First, hosting services to support IDP in the initial stages of their adaptation process and second, serving as an on-site learning platform regarding the environment, displacement and cultural diversity. While these problems require bigger scale policies and interventions, La Ruta de la Diversidad

will be a first step to -locally- make them more visible and trigger debate, ideas, research and proposals from residents, authorities and also academic institutions.

The light structures or artifacts will replicate six distinct climates from Colombia regions which are the original hometown of many of the displaced people. By using the various climates and vegetation of Colombia, we aim to bring comfort to these displaced people while allowing them to spread their unique culture, educate the locals about their forgotten river and give a new understanding about the diversity in the neighborhood.

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â–² Colombian Climates

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